Friday 1/6 shopping trip

Good news for those of you who were too sick to go out to the "after Christmas" sales! Big Lots still has tons of Christmas paper, bows, Christmas cards and all kinds of things for 50% off. I was able to get what I need for next year for 1/2 price! Yippee! We were also out of bath soap, Big Lots has 3 bars of Palmolive soap for $1, which makes them .33 each, you can't beat that price to get clean and it smells great too! I stocked up again. They also had good prices on body lotion, check them out, they don't take coupons, though.

Publix....I admit I splurged a bit! I got my 8 o'clock bags of coffee...16 of them...for $2.78 each, they are normally $6.81 each! Won't be buying coffee for a while! Prego sauce was $2.53 for 2 (bogo) and I had a Target Coupon for $1 off 2 of them, they ended up at .76 each. Nabisco Multigrain Saltines were bogo, had coup for $1 off 2, they were .99 each. The Rubbermaid easy find lid containers...small ones were $2.87 (with the 40% off) and I had coups for $1 off, making those $1.87 each. My Multigrain Cheerios ended up at $2 each for the big box...not great. Publix has boneless skinless chicken breast on sale and I bought 2 packages of that, had them grind it up for my dogs! Way cheaper than the ground turkey I normally buy for them. Here's the "splurge" part...they had some beautiful thick pieces of Cod that had just come off the truck...it's expensive and large Mayport Shrimp, fresh not frozen. Did I buy one or the other? Of course not, I bought both! The Cod will go on the grill blackened and the shrimp we will mix with some of our other chicken breast, and make fajitas on the grill with those items. Of course, that meant I needed to buy avacoados to make guacamoli for the fajitas and needed limes, flour tortillas and tartar sauce for the cod! See what happens to me? I go in with great intentions to ONLY Buy my coupon items, and look how I end up? My friend Vicki is so good at only buying her coupon items! She does way better than I do for sure, but you're stuck with me, okay? I also bought my $50 Shell gas card for $40! There's my gas for the month! I allow myself $50 per month for gas, that's it! I spent $181.90 for $291.29 in goods. Now remember, $40 of that was a gas card and almost $25 was fish! I saved $109.39 all told. I am okay with that.

Okay, that's my story and I'm sticken to it! Love you all, have a wonderful weekend, I'll be thinking about you when we make fajitas on the grill Saturday night! God bless.....Rhonda Goff